74. A requires a tank in size capable of holding the quantity of
water that would be caught from the roof of his house in a fall of
3 inches of rain. The roof (commonly called a “hip-roof”) is at an
angle of 45 degrees to the wall plates. The length of house is 30 ft.,
breadth 24 ft., and length of ridge to roof 6 ft. But the eaves of
the iron used for the roofing were so large as to increase its (the
roof’s) dimensions by 3 inches all round, and the spouting added
another 3 inches all round. Find the number of gallons the tank would
require to contain; also dimensions of tank to be made so that its
height must exceed its diameter by no more than 12 inches?
“The ’embers of a dying year”--November, December.